Severe Symptomatic Primary CMV Infection in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients with Low Population Seroprevalence by Catherine Rowan, Ciaran Judge, Mary D. Cannon, Garret Cullen, Hugh E. Mulcahy, Elizabeth Ryan, Cillian F. De Gascun, Glen A. Doherty

“…Primary cytomegalovirus infection can cause a severe illness in IBD patients, particularly those receiving immunosuppression. …”
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Health loss and economic burden of asthma in China: a qualitative review based on existing literature by Peng Zhang, Jiaxin Xu, Baichuan Xu, Yiyin Zhang, Yang Xie

“…The risk of bias in economic studies was assessed using an 11-item methodological checklist for cost of illness, while cross-sectional studies were evaluated using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s recommendation rating tool. …”
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Undernutrition and Associated Factors among Under-Five Orphan Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020: A Cross-Sectional Study by Selam Shegaw Sewnet, Hunegnaw Almaw Derseh, Hanna Demelash Desyibelew, Netsanet Fentahun

“…Therefore, improving meal frequency, dietary diversity, and early treatment during childhood illness are important to reduce orphan undernutrition.…”
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Challenges Faced by Prehospital Emergency Physicians Providing Emergency Care to Patients with Advanced Incurable Diseases by Anne Kamphausen, Hanna Roese, Karin Oechsle, Malte Issleib, Christian Zöllner, Carsten Bokemeyer, Anneke Ullrich

“…We identified nine categories of challenges: structural conditions of prehospital emergency care, medical documentation and orders, finding optimal patient-centered therapy, uncertainty about legal consequences, challenges at the individual (EP) level, challenges at the emergency team level, family caregiver’s emotions, coping and understanding of patient’s illness, patient’s wishes, coping and understanding of patient’s illness, and social, cultural, and religious background of patients and families. …”
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Costs of outpatient services at selected primary healthcare centers in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study. by Md Zahid Hasan, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Khadija Islam Tisha, Md Golam Rabbani, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Subrata Paul, Ziaul Islam, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood

“…We conducted a health facility survey at four purposively selected UzHCs to estimate provider costs and a patient exit survey among 452 patients of selected illnesses to estimate the user costs. Commonly reported illnesses were identified in consultation with healthcare providers of these facilities. …”
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Proportion of Ophthalmic Self-Medication and Associated Factors among Adult Ophthalmic Patients Attending Borumeda Hospital, Dessie, Northeast Ethiopia by Nebiyat Feleke Adimassu, Zemed Guchma Woldetsadik, Haile Woretaw Alemu

“…Age-group 29–42 years (AOR: 2.19, 95% CI: 1.06–4.52), absence of health insurance (AOR: 4.29; 2.35–7.84), more than 10 kilometer traveling distance to get eye services (AOR: 3.11; 1.58–6.12), previous experience of ocular illness (AOR: 2.62, 95% CI: 1.53–4.48), family or friend experience of ocular illness (AOR: 2.65, 95%CI: 1.43–4.92), availability of ophthalmic medicine bottle/tube at home (AOR: 4.59, 95% CI: 2.36–8.92), and poor knowledge about hazards of self-medication (AOR: 6.22; 3.26–11.85) were significantly associated with ophthalmic self-medication. …”
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Lived experiences of people with chronic kidney disease on maintenance dialysis: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies by Maya Annie Elias, Wim Van Damme, Grace Marie V Ku, Mahesh Kadammanavar, Edwin Wouters

“…Therefore, this study aims to synthesize the existing literature on the illness experience of people living with CKD who are on maintenance dialysis across different country contexts. …”
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Predominant polarity in bipolar affective disorder and its impact on cognition and quality of life by Shashank Bhardwaj, Deoraj Sinha, Ami Pawar, Astik Mane

“…Background: Bipolar mood disorder or bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) is a chronic illness characterized by phases of mania/hypomania, depression, or mixed episodes. …”
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The diagnostic conundrum of late-onset developmental regression in child psychiatry: case series by Shalu Elizabeth Abraham, Sakhardande Kasturi Atmaram, Poornima Khadanga, Nirmalya Mukherjee, Rajendra Kiragasur Madegowda, Harshini Manohar

“…For severe manifestations such as developmental regression, where the illness is still evolving, considering CDD as a non-aetiological and transitory/tentative diagnosis would aid against premature diagnostic categorisation and provide scope for ongoing aetiological search. …”
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Psychological experience of inpatients with acute pancreatitis: a qualitative study by Yuanyuan Chen, Guotao Lu, Can Zhang, Yiwen Gao, Jingwen Qin, Weiwei Chen, Yan Ren, Shuli Ma, Weijuan Gong, Xiaoxi Yang, Hongmei He

“…We employed an adapted version of Colaizzi’s qualitative analysis approach to examine the data.Results We extracted three themes and eight subthemes regarding the participants’ psychological experiences: (1) feeling that their disease is unpredictable (the inability to recognise the disease, uncertainty about the illness and fear of progression or recurrence); (2) various kinds of stress and support (feeling different degrees of stress, perceiving social support, seeking and craving social support); and (3) developing self-adaptability in the disease process (treating one’s illness negatively or positively).Conclusions Cognitive and emotional responses vary in patients with AP during hospitalisation. …”
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Wild Game: Further Processing of Wild Game Meat by Jason M. Scheffler, Chad Carr, Michael Fioretto, Jennifer G. Bearden, Halie Corbitt

“… This publication discusses further processing considerations for wild game meat, including foodborne illness concerns, meat storage, thawing, sausage making, and curing. …”
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Franco Vaccari. Experiencing darkness towards Shamanism by Sergio Poggianella

“…The Shaman passes through these dream states and Spirit worlds – in an altered state of consciousness – in order to recover the souls of the humans closest to him, lost after an illness. Dark spaces in which, as Vaccari states, the forms that may be encountered become unexpected events with hallucinating features.…”
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Maxillary Fungal Osteomyelitis Mimicking and Treated as Endodontic Pathosis by Sarang Suresh Hotchandani, Feroze Ali Kalhoro, Priya Rani Harjani, Mahwish Memon

“…CBCT demonstrated osteolytic abnormalities, and further histology confirmed the illness was caused by mucormycosis in patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and exposure to COVID-19.…”
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Small Farm Food Safety, Fresh Produce: Part 2 - The Buck Stops Here by Brian Lapinski, Amy Simonne, Marilyn E. Swisher

“…Swisher, presents four different scenarios involving cases of foodborne illness causing unsafe food handling practices and provides discussion questions and analysis. …”
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Risk Management for 4-H Youth Development Work: Insurance by Dale Pracht, Marilyn Norman, Kate Fogarty, Jean Hink

“…It describes the necessity of accident and illness insurance and general liability insurance for the 4-H organization. …”
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Bebidas nutricionales suplementarias: ¿ Las necesito? by Claire Marie Fassett, Nancy J Gal, Wendy Dahl, Daniela Rivero Mendoza

“…Supplemental nutrition drinks are often used in hospitals and adult care homes to help nourish those who may be eating poorly and have lost weight due to illness or lack of appetite. More recently, nutrition drinks have become available for purchase by consumers. …”
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Small Farm Food Safety, Fresh Produce: Part 2 - The Buck Stops Here by Brian Lapinski, Amy Simonne, Marilyn E. Swisher

“…Swisher, presents four different scenarios involving cases of foodborne illness causing unsafe food handling practices and provides discussion questions and analysis. …”
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The Effect of Hospitalization on Older Couples by Donna Davis

“…Likewise, research has explored the weighty effect that a spouse’s illness has on the caregiving partner, also called caregiver burden. …”
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The Impact of Random Noise on the Dynamics of COVID-19 Epidemic Model by Amine El Koufi, Nouhaila El Koufi, Abdelkrim Bennar, Namana Seshagiri Rao

“…For modeling and studying infectious illness transmission, mathematical models are helpful tools. …”
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Eastern Bloodsucking Conenose, Triatoma sanguisuga (LeConte) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) by John L. Capinera

“…They are a known vector of American trypanosomiasis (or Chagas Disease) in South America, a debilitating illness caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. …”
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